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Draft lotteries suck for die-hard fans

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It's draft lottery season, where so much of your favorite team's history and success may rest in the hands of a pingpong ball.

The point of the lottery is to reduce tanking so that every team is trying hard to make the playoffs every year .

But if the worst teams don't get a high draft pick, it just prolongs their suffering in the league basement.

The new pope is a sports fan, and was briefly seen on the World Series broadcast in 2005 .

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wrote to NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to express her "disappointment" with the decision to cancel the NHL All-Star Game .

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected the idea of Utah Yeti , which would have been Utah Mammoth .

The state of New York spent $100 million on a new Long Island Rail Road station to serve the arena.

The Seat is basically a 40-minute promo video for Mercedes and Antonelli.

It's flashy and the visuals are pretty, but it doesn't provide much of anything new.

We could all use a good dunk from Minnesota 's Anthony Edwards .

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62

Informative language

59

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16

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English

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38

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possibly offensive

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